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Thanks to all the volunteers who came on our October volunteer convoy to Calais. We achieved a great deal over the two days, and some of our more intrepid volunteers even took a sunset swim in the channel after a hard day's work.

We would like to thank Ank Rigelsford and Margaret Comer, and wish them a very happy birthday, for raising respectively £204 and £189 for CamCRAG from their birthday fundraisers.

Thank you to all our members and everyone who came to yesterday's Annual General Meeting and Get Together. Around 40 people attended the evening and watched presentations on the charity's achievements over the past year, and our plans for the year ahead. We also listened to three very informative talks from NGO workers

We are really proud to announce a new partnership between Lebanon Free Shop and CamCRAG to ship and distribute the majority of the donations we collect to stock up the Free Shop, a project based in Bekaa offering refugees and local people the opportunity to select the decent items they want and need with choice and dignity.

We would like to offer a massive thank you to Gareth Heaney for raising over £500 for CamCRAG in sponsorship from his run of the Cambridge Half Marathon on Sunday 17 October.

Thank you to everyone who helped run our stall at last Saturday's community event on Mill Road, and thank you to the many people who bought gifts and expressed interest in helping us to help refugees. We raised over £350!

Ollie volunteered on his first CamCRAG convoy to Calais in September 2021: "We spent both days working in the warehouse, it definitely felt like our help was really appreciated by the long term volunteers, we were always busy doing tasks from sorting clothes to putting up and taking down tents. The warehouse had a really nice atmosphere to it and it was great getting to know the long term volunteers while doing tasks. "

Following the crisis in Afghanistan, local charities are being overwhelmed with offers of donations and new volunteers. No Afghans have yet arrived in the Cambridge area but, when they do, Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign (CRRC) is the group to talk to for volunteers wanting to help.
In the meantime, the advice is to hang onto anything you want to donate to Afghan refugees or approach Refugees At Home or Room for Refugees if you’d like to offer accommodation.

A team of 20 volunteers made their way to Abbots Ripton on the afternoon of Monday 23 August to help clear the site after the 'We Out Here' festival. Thank you to everyone who helped with this very successful salvage operation!